actinique
French, adjective/ak.ti.nik/
actinique is a French adjective meaning “actinic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se dit d’un éclairage qui provoque une réaction chimique et impressionne une pellicule”.
What does actinique mean in English?
adjective
- 1
actinic
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Se dit d’un éclairage qui provoque une réaction chimique et impressionne une pellicule.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of actinique
- actiniques plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce actinique?
- /ak.ti.nik/
- \ak.ti.nik\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to actinique
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is actinique in French?
actinique appears about once in every 54 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).